The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-04-07


begun in the house of the Lord" which /
considered as formal an excommunica-
ton from the Methodist church as ever
was penned by the pope. SAID editorial,
with its matchmaking conclusion, was
penned by You $50 your partner informed
mel simply because Governor Ireland, in
passing through st. Louis, upon invita-
ton visited it's breweries, and, while
there, expressed the hope that good beer
would take the place of whisky in Texas.
Fresh into the state you manifest an in
tolerant and disres pectful spirit toward a
man whom Texas has highly honored,
all because he don't bow to your fanatical
ideas. In your letters you seek to play
In the role of martyr because 1 mildly re-
ferred to these matters in my speech. You
need nave no uneasiness, for such cheek
and the want of respect for the peoples
opinions, has never been exhibited in
Iexas, even in the days of car
Peb-paglsm when we were
slaves to the domination of
visiting statesmen. You accuse me #
want of hospitality, and pray you why 7
Is 1t because said that on great public
questions like this preferred to take my
Political teachings from men like Coke,
Reagan, Mills and Terrell, who had stood
by Texas and her people in times that
trled mems souls, rather than from an ex-
republican member of the Kansas legisla-
ture, with whom had not the pleasure of
a personal acquaintance and who could
hardly be infalible in both spiritual and
political affairs? You will find before this
canvass Is fairly begun that your influence
IHYQE horlIN 1Sn;n
trusted public servants of lifetimes res
idence out of the church and the esteem
OF their people. Perhaps after twelve
months residence your superior culture
and Christian qualities may carry this in
huence that you now arrogate; but do not
charge myself and other Texans with
want of hospitality because we don't
fetish like worship a new idol before we
know his power.
| know that you have come to Texas to
teach us the science of government and
how to mix politics and religion without
either suffering. This is lesson that has
never been learned outside of Kansas. OF
course you have discovered that the people
of Texas haven't got much sense and are
slow to catch on, but they have put you at
the head of new political party even be-
fore you were voter, and if you will be
patient, who knows but what, at your sug-
gestion, they will spit upon Ireland, Coke
and other fool democratic leaders, whom
they have trusted for years and not yet
found wanting? Keep on the line you have
started out on, and you may hoodoo them,
for, while the people of Texas were never
very much scared by Indians and bull
cts, they are very scarey of hell,
and If you can convince them that you |
Ire the Amounted leader of the Lord in |
his fight, they may stampede-s
hey never did either at Bull Run or San |
Jacinto. You shouldn't despair because
men born and raised in different atmos-
Dhere from yourself won't hurry to give |
Up the faith of their fathers. 1 assure
you, if you succeed by your prohibitory
avs in making felon of man who
would visit brewery, that you will find
his man ireland tracking the law as he
las for years past. Now, sirs, my ances-
jors may or may not have been with your
ancestors in the revolutionary war, but l
will be with you in this fight, and clay
IN, McDuf, and damned be he who first
,ries enOugh"
Your open letter was unjustified by any
hing said in my speech, or by any per-
onal acquaintance; the correspondence
vas unsolicited on my part. "You can
continue it if you like, but see no posi-
oility of our becoming sweethearts," for
after four years official intimacy with
Governor Ireland and a lifetime's service
n the democratic party, can't get "off |
With the old love and on with the new"
claim to be champion of that personal |
liberty which was handed down to US by
nose revolutionary fOrefathers of whom
'ou boast. You charge me with some
hing that smacks of "Rum, Romanism
md Rebellion" but in order to quiet your
conscience as to what am, allow me to
ssure you that with all the horrors |
ave of the evils of lntemperance, 1
you'd prefer to see every man in, Texas
runkard rather than the victims of fanat-
cism and disregard for personal liberty.
l see that republican organ, the EN-
,oria Daily Globe, of March 8, claims
hat Kansas has prospered because it is
ettled by republicans; we might retort
~ saying that the people of Texas are
lappy and prosperous because they are
democrats. We welcome all men, even
orelgners, to our great state, but we take
'ur religion from the Bible, and our poll
les from the democratic fathers.
From the tone of your letter 1 presume
hat you consider Kansas the superior OF
Texas in every respect except in point of
lealth for those affected as yourself.
The following is a clipping from the
Topeka paper of the 18th lnst.i
Now that Mr.. ingalls, is acting vice
president of the United States, were 1t not
Tor that measley presidential succession
aw, we would recommend that some one
kill Grover Cleveland"
Is this same spirit to prevail in this
fight? Respectfully,
B. GIBBS.